[Monotone-devel] Files Changing During Commit.

[Anthony Edward Cooper]

   Hi again,

   Just recently had an odd one. A developer on our team got a `file 
.... modified during commit, aborting' message. On the second attempt he 
exited the editor, KWrite, touched the file and it still failed. 
However, upon the third attempt, where he needlessly added a line to the 
file, he succeeded. Unfortunately he did all this before speaking to me. 
When I went over there I recommitted the original file with no problems. 
This is under 64 bit RedHat AS4U2 over NFS. The only other application 
running was konsole.

   I suspect this is some sort of NFS caching nasty and the inode 
timestamps are getting updated during the commit. I thought of 
suggesting doing a touch followed by a sync but NFS writes should not 
cache on the client side...

   Have you come across this and what is the best way of dealing with 
it? By the way we are using mtn Version 0.35.

   Many thanks in advance.

   Tony Cooper.